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...math. For the man who intends to do no graduate work, Biochem is useless professionally, but provides a good, liberal survey of general science. For men going into psychology or physiology in Graduate School, it provides at least as good, and probably a better, background than undergraduate concentration in psychology or biology...
...main choice which a prospective science concentrator must make, once he has decided that he wants to study his sciences against the broad background of a liberal arts college like Harvard, lies between the engineering and the so-called pure sciences. Broadly speaking, the emphasis in the latter is upon the theoretical, in the former upon the practical application of those theories...
When the Jap struck Cebu, he struck with overwhelming force. One day ten transports and five warships stood off the harbor where the rusty bones of sunken ships thrust above the blue water, and the skeletons of destroyed oil installations lay dead against the background of waving palms...
...porch, I saw a muscular white man, stripped to the waist, making swift jabs with a surgeon's knife in a struggling Chinese soldier's arm. Three Burmese 90-lb. nurses were holding down the soldier. Gas lamps strung on wires provided the only light. In the background the crackling of the fire could be heard...
...Donna looks like Carol, all right, but that's all, and what were hit tunes on the stage are flops here. The other songs are effectively handled, although some of the best ones, especially "It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow," are either left out or merely used as background music...